Jeffrey Goldberg, the top editor for The Atlantic, shared in an interview on Tuesday that he may be open to sharing the entirety of the messages he received in a group chat with top U.S. officials.
Goldberg shared his thoughts while speaking with The Bulwark, a day after publishing an article detailing how he was mistakenly added to a Signal group chat where top officials, including Vice President JD Vance, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, and more, discussed war plans.
“I get the defensive reaction,” Goldberg said. “But my obligation, I feel, is to the idea that we take national security information seriously.”
Goldberg detailed in his report that the messages sent in the group chat detailed plans for an attack on the Houthi in Yemen, which took place earlier this month. This included messages from Hegseth that detailed specific weapons systems, human targets, and other top-secret information.
Citing national security concerns, he did not publish the specific information in his report.
The White House has denied that war plans were included in the group chat, and Hegseth denied the report as well, saying Monday that Goldberg was “a deceitful and highly discredited, so-called journalist who’s made a profession of peddling hoaxes time and time again.”
“Maybe in the coming days, I’ll be able to say, ‘OK, I have a plan to have this material vetted publicly,’” Goldberg told The Bulwark on Tuesday. “But I’m not going to say that now.”
Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard and CIA Director John Ratcliffe were also reportedly in the group chat. They said during a hearing at the Capitol on Tuesday that the group chat did not include classified information.